Original subtitles

All right, you can cut it loose.

Yeah. Roger. Roger.

Well, here we go.

My first time running the boat by myself.

This is a huge opportunity for me.

Bill's voice is gonna be in the back of my head for every decision I make.

I have to produce for the owners, for the boys out on deck.

If this doesn't work out, if I [bleep] up tremendously,

then I don't know if they're ever gonna be able to trust me to run this boat.

So, a lot excited.

I'm very anxious.

My main thing I'm worried about is time.

Four days until the end of the fall season...

Cannery has their doors closing real soon.

And they're shutting down,

a lot of guys are still fishing.

I'm one of them.

...four boats go around the clock

to catch their share of the remaining $300,000 of king and bairdi crab

before the cannery doors close.

Just a little bit farther to the northwest

has been one of our most prosperous.

I need to try to get as much as I can while I can.

We're almost there.

But we've got to load the boat in four days,

or the cannery won't take our crab.

It's gonna be hard to do.

It's not adding up to the numbers that we need.

We just have to come together and get this final push done.

What the [bleep]?

Hey!

We got to get this season wrapped up.

Praying that everything goes right.

Please, God, get me through this.

240 miles north of Dutch Harbor...

Oh, boy.

...on the eastern bairdi crab grounds.

Oh, big one.

Whoo-hoo!

We better get these pots up and hauled, man.

Aboard the Northwestern.

We set our gear from shallow to deep,

but that's right in the ditch.

You know, you've got the wind 90 degrees to the boat,

so they're fighting the wind.

Guys are going to have to stay on their toes.

That's all there is to it.

With his final offload just days away,

Captain Sig Hansen hauls gears set perpendicular to the current,

exposing his starboard rail and his crew to 15-foot seas.

Whoa!

Yeah, it's something. They're moving.

First pot coming up.

Oh, no.

Talk to me, Goose.

How many?

It's not like the world's on fire here.

Ooh, ooh, ooh. Watch the rail. Watch the rail.

Whoa! Watch out!

Heads up! Whoa!

Yeah. Yeah, we're good.

It is in the ditch.

That's the problem.

Let's try a little different--

Watch out.

I can't use a lot of speed or power,

so it, kind of, restricts us, you know.

You're more squirrelly.

You've got more power to it, the boat goes straighter.

You gotta slow down.

Timing.

Whoa!

I'm just trying to adjust the speed here.

And then when I turn, I'll have just enough to go through 'em.

Roger.

Try one here.

Camera guy, move.

That went well. Okay.

Come on, baby. Come on.

That's a good pot.

They're very lively.

Yeah!

There we go! They're good numbers.

Got 'em!

58.

I kind of feel like they're moving north

towards that same depth, maybe even a little deeper.

Crab are up above there, and they are tracking that way.

Oh, yeah. Oh, [bleep], brother!

Guys are real happy, and that's great, but we still gotta push.

Over!

We just got to play it hour by hour here, see how it goes.

Hopefully, uh, these things can hit some crab.

Today is gonna suck.

We made it on time.

Normally, you get home and you can let out a big sigh,

but I'm going to get here and...

Now it's time to go under the knife.

I'd like to get rid of the cancer

and continue to, you know, go on with life.

So they actually plant a piece of radioactive material in each spot

so it destroys it.

Compelled to leave the 2023 fall season

for urgent treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate,

Captain Wild Bill Wichrowski seeds the fate

of the Summer Bay and its crew

to the hands of his deck boss turned skipper, 35-year-old Landon Cheney.

You know, I couldn't have Landon be much more ready to do this.

I know when I started, it was just "Here's the keys. Go ahead and drive."

I mean, I've coached him through a lot of stuff.

I think... I think he's ready.

I mean, I guess we'll, uh, see how it goes.

♪ There is a house In New Orleans ♪

It's time for the bairdi crab!

I'm...

Yes! Whoo-hoo!

Oh, my God! What in the...

Holy [bleep].

Hey, guys, I know it's just us out here.

We're without our fearless leader.

Let's just get her done and go home.

All right, Captain.

I've been aiming at this spot for the last eight years here.

Coming up on the first of the two strings

that we didn't have time to haul

before we had our breakdown.

We need 2,700 pounds.

I mean, it's just baptism by fire on the Bering Sea.

Here we go.

I'm just hoping that we can get through this next 36 hours,

get these crab on.

I can't wait to make that call to Bill when I tell him

that we're stacking out and on our way in.

That's going to be a good feeling.

Well, that ain't good.

Eleven. 1-1. - Eleven. Roger.

What is this?

Oh, boy.

I was really hoping it was gonna be in the gear,

but, well, I guess we're setting back.

I don't know what my plan is yet.

Basically, it's on me now.

Seventy-two miles east...

Come on, baby! Come on!

Grab one of these!

It's getting gnarly out.

Hang on, brother.

Give me some stomach exercise over here.

I'm hanging on for dear life.

Oh, brother, brother, brother, brother.

On the Time Bandit...

Come on. Oh, no!

Whoo-hoo!

Well, it's getting nautical.

We got to get into town, and we have an offload coming.

Gotta keep searching for these guys.

With seas topping 18 feet...

Ay, yi, yi.

...Captain Johnathan Hillstrand and brother, Neal,

hunt from deep to shallow up a steep far north bank

for the 8,000 pounds of red king crab they need

before turning their bow toward town.

Oh, [bleep].

Watch out!

Heads up! Heads up!

You're killing me, Smalls.

Only thing I could do is hang on to my throttle and steering at that time.

You're killing me, Smalls Hillstrand.

We're back! Whoo!

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

It's a crab.

Yeah, grab that pot, Richard. He's a big guy.

We're gonna set 'em.

Little bit of a struggle,

trying to learn, uh, at a fast pace, but I'm getting it.

19, brother. 19.

- That's a good pot, Neal. - Yeah.

We've covered from 100 to it looks like 25.

Well, we have to see... They could be shallow.

It's all part of the game.

Full pot, baby! Big crab, baby! Big crab!

Oh, hey, hey, hey. Whoa!

Hold up.

What the hell? Yeah.

We got a tangle here and it looks pretty dangerous.

We got three extra shots on the pots,

so in case they throw tangles, we don't lose it.

So there's lots of line floating.

Watch out, guys.

The tide just switched? - Yeah. It's freaking...

I can't do nothing.

There we go. Yeah, baby.

Got it, man. Easy-peasy. Money.

What are they doing? Dump the [bleep] pot!

No, you're not listening. - I did.

You better throw it. Throw it, throw it!

Yell at 'em! Throw the [bleep]!

You gotta tell 'em.

Someone's gonna get hurt, dude.

You got it? Throw it!

Come on guys! Let's go, let's go!

Go! Go! Whoa!

Go! Go!

Oh, [bleep].

You okay?

That's [bleep] nuts.

Sorry, man. I got this. I got it.

Okay. Neal, thank you, brother.

You're the man, Neal.

Oh, my God! Yeah!

Whoa, Richard!

That scared the living out of me, man.

I don't even know which way is up right now.

Can't stop. Just got to keep fishing.

Roger. Rogerlero.

Might be a lot more crab shallower.

They're all right next to each other.

Put them all in one little blob, and you're gonna pull 'em.

Season's over right there, done.

Finished.

I hope that happens, but we don't see that yet.

Thirty-two miles southeast...

Going over!

Oh, wow.

Hey, bro. How you doing, man?

Good. How's it going?

Uh, it's going good.

Getting close to getting wrapped up on our quota there.

Have you had any luck on trying to, uh, procure any more?

Way to go. That... That is great news.

And stay safe out there and keep it up.

All right. Take care.

All right. You, too.

Cool.

On the Aleutian Lady...

We have an offload date in three days from now,

and him being able to get us quota is enormous.

Now...

Let it go. - ...I need to get these strings

back in the water as quick as we can.

Guys are tired, guys are wore out.

And we just have to come together

and get this final push done.

With an additional $150,000 of bairdi quota up for grabs,

Captain Rick Shelford and crew grind into their 30th waking hour,

betting the canneries will shut down before their bodies.

Hurry up!

I got it. Watch out, watch out.

I got it, I got it, I got it.

Gotta poop. Gotta poop.

♪ Oh, Lord, help me gotta poop ♪

♪ Ooh, gotta poop

♪ Gotta poop

Ah.

♪ Gotta poop, poop poop, poop ♪

Let's go! I gotta poop! Hurry up!

Going over!

Hey, man, I gotta [bleep].

I ain't in no bucket.

What do I look like?

If you have a problem, you have to use the bucket sometimes.

Oh, my God!

Yo.

I, uh...

You've got side-to-side movement and cross movement.

Today sucks.

If that ring gear's out, we can't stack up on top.

It's a good thing we're about done setting

because I need to get my crane pulled apart.

This is not what we needed right now.

I'm a little upset because...

Starting to get bricked up.

All right, guys.

Going over.

Hey!

So we just wrapped up that string.

We need to be able to haul gear and make money.

But unless I get that crane fixed, I can't do either.

One hundred twenty-six miles northwest...

aboard the Northwestern.

I believe there's a band of crab,

but I believe they stretch northwest, southeast.

We have a quota. I want to hit it.

We need a big bump just to get our average up

and find some consistency within the pots,

instead of a couple here, a couple there.

After following a sign of life in the north,

Captain Cig Hansen banks their 22-pot string will be their last of the fall,

reaping their final 2,000 pounds,

before there's nowhere left to deliver.

Coming up!

What do we got?

Coming up!

Is there anything in it?

Yes! Yup! - Yup. There's crab.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Finally.

That's what we're looking for right there.

It's a big one.

Not bad.

Bang!

If we can keep these averages up,

we've got a good shot at getting out of here before I thought.

Look at that guy!

Uh-oh.

Yup.

You got this. He got it.

Got it?

He's on the wrong side of the line.

No!

On the Northwestern...

Okay. Now what?

We got a leak. It's spewing.

Just right off the pump here.

There's getting no hydraulics to the block.

We're out of business without that block.

It's just a shame, man.

It's just... We're so close.

You know what, guys?

Roger.

Desperate to fill up before heading in,

Captain Sig subs in the anchor winch to haul his remaining gear.

The catch? It's on the bow.

See if you can get the slack up.

Spool it up.

Forcing the crew to MacGyver the line forward

before cranking the pot to the surface.

It's coming.

There it goes.

Then use the crane to lift it out of the water

and dump the crab on the table.

That is... Easy.

...if it works.

Barely hold on to it so if it snaps.

- Remember, that thing will whip this back. - Yeah.

It doesn't just break, it whips.

Here comes the knot!

Oh!

Yeah, boy. Oh, that's hard.

That cleat comes loose, man, it's coming right at you.

We got to get the, uh, pick and boom cable up here.

All right. Go around.

Got it?

Got it.

The idea is when the pot comes up,

we'll put that pick and boom,

hook it in.

And then we'll tighten up a little on this,

and then we'll let the pot back down.

It's a strain on the pick and boom,

and then we have control on the pick and boom.

Whenever you ready. Okay. We're ready on this end.

Pull up from there.

All right, slack it up. Let her go.

Okay. Okay, up. Up, up.

Yeah, buddy.

Whoo!

There's crab. One down, 19 to go.

Ready when you are.

Okay, coming up.

Just work it. One, two, three.

One, two.

Where there's a will there's a way, man.

Kind of a last-ditch effort.

- We need to get these things up and out. - We're good.

I hope we hit our number.

Is everything okay?

Yeah! Whoo!

Cannery has their doors closing real soon.

But right now, down to the wire.

You know, time is money.

Come on, guys, let's go, let's go!

Fifty miles south...

Hey, boss. How's it going?

On the Summer Bay...

It wasn't the one shot, one kill we were hoping for.

We got back-to-back sevens in the last two pots.

All right. Roger that.

Yeah, I've got everything under control out here.

You don't have to worry.

We're gonna get it done for you.

All right, brother, later. Later.

Yes! Whoo-hoo!

Yeah, baby!

Is that 20? Yes, sir.

That's a little better.

We just need some high 20s

on a couple of strings, and I mean, that's that.

Yeah!

What was in the last one?

27.

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

To me, what it's looking like is

these crab have moved from east to west.

I'm gonna start setting this string

right where we saw all these 20s, towards the west.

That's kind of going against what Bill told me to do,

but I'm not gonna bother him,

keep trying to call him.

Hey, guys.

This isn't the plan that me and Bill discussed,

but sometimes you just got to go with your gut out here.

- Are we ready? - Aye, Cap.

All right, let the first one go.

Going over.

I changed the plans.

I'm hoping that it pays off.

If it doesn't, then I'm gonna have to be honest with him and tell him.

Uh, so he might be a little pissed off at me.

Going over.

Eighty miles east...

...on the Time Bandit.

Oh, Neal's back.

We can put half a million dollars around this thing.

All right, brother.

We have not slept.

This boat's been going and going and going.

We've had a couple of three, two hours.

That's all you need. That's all the body needs.

We're late. We have offload coming.

Hopefully, this will get us through.

We need, like, a 31 average.

Coming up, guys.

You just, uh, set your nets on the other side of the boat.

And then they caught so many fish,

they couldn't pull their nets in.

So they're essentially still [bleep].

But I don't understand that story.

That's why they said, "[bleep] it. We lost our nets.

Let's go hang out with this guy and be apostles. Be disciples."

Maybe.

Anyway, this first one needs to be a good one.

Come on, crabbies.

Come on, crabbies, crabbies, crabbies.

Come on, little crabbies.

Show me some crab legs.

Come on, baby. Come on, baby, baby, baby.

Oh. Come on.

Come on, baby! Okay, coming up!

On the Time Bandit...

Come on, baby. Come on, baby, baby, baby.

Oh. Come on.

Come on, baby! Okay, coming up!

Yeah, baby!

Yeah, baby! Whoo-hoo! Bring it on. Whoo-hoo!

Look how big they are.

Yeah! Let's find some big ones.

Unbelievable.

Whoo! That's what we need to go home.

We need to go home.

We gotta go home.

Big boys. Big ones.

Oh, I see 'em. Riders. Here go the riders.

Yeah!

Got the big school all alone out here.

Big, big, big school of crabs.

Thank you, God.

Forty-seven. 47. 47, baby!

47, baby!

I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

$500.

$500.

Stacking up, man, and heading home. Whoo!

All right.

Right at the end, we got the mother lode.

It couldn't have happened to a better bunch of guys.

That's all I know.

That's serious pay. Big, big pot.

Yeah. Nice job, broskis.

I love you, brother. I love you, Neal.

I love you, Neal Hillstrand.

I love you, Neal. I love my brother.

Seventy-eight miles west...

Pulling up on that string

that I moved over against the advice of Bill.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that...

made a little audible.

You know, the last thing I want to do is upset him right now,

when he's dealing with all this treatment, he's...

So we'll see if it pays off here.

Crossing my fingers.

On the Summer Bay...

About to haul the first pot.

Here we go.

It was a gamble.

But, uh, I think I made the right call.

Come on, crab! Come on, crab!

I never thought I'd want to be a captain

when I first came up here, the responsibility.

You've got to want it.

High 20s. That's all we need.

Come on, baby.

Boom!

Looking good, looking good. There it is.

Yeah! Whoo!

Yeah!

Oh, yeah, those are big, nice crab, too.

What did we get in that last one?

55. Five-five.

As Bill would say, "Look at me now, [bleep]."

Big pot right here. There we go.

Yeah, baby!

Cha-ching.

Oh, yeah, baby!

Oh, yeah! Whoo!

Just hold up for me.

One hundred eight miles southeast...

How are we looking, guys?

...on the Aleutian Lady.

Oh, all bad, Cap. All bad.

It's not just your circular rocking.

It's actually floating.

Well, I'm glad you caught it because that's how cranes fall off the pedestal.

And I mean, people die from that.

At least we have the option,

as long as we can find the parts

that maybe we can have it repaired.

What I'd I want to do is get inside and see what I can see.

- Yeah, let's chain it down first, though. - Right.

Chain it down, let's pop the hatch.

Let's crawl up inside and let's see how bad it is.

Roger that.

All right, you guys.

When it comes to heavy equipment, like a crane out at sea,

you have to have safety in mind.

And no matter how much harder it's going to be,

it's never worth having somebody get hurt

by a captain not making sure

the equipment is in working order.

You're good.

Here we go.

Chief, are you okay?

There wasn't much room with us both.

Pardon?

Oh, my God.

Nobody washed that down?

What the [bleep].

Yeah.

Literally, it's like going out on the porch at your house and [bleep] on your porch.

He literally took a crap on the deck.

I've hit my limit with Jacob and his [bleep].

Yeah.

There is no justification for that.

That is one of the most disgusting things

I've heard of on a boat in the Bering Sea.

Everybody, get off the deck now!

I mean, I'm normally a hands-off captain on deck,

until something like this happens, then I've got to step in.

I'm so tired of issues.

All of the personal BS is just exhausting.

We're together, and that's all that matters.

We just miss our dog.

Hey, buddy. Come here.

I miss the grandbabies, I miss the kids,

- I miss the dog. - Yeah.

I'm just saying that. I just miss the dog.

I love my grandbabies, you know I...

- We love our grandbabies. - You know I was being mean.

- We do miss Jack, though. - Facetious.

- Oh, Jack. He's always happy. - I miss you, Jack.

He always loves us. He doesn't talk back.

So that's a bonus right there. Yeah.

You're a good buddy.

He goes everywhere with us.

- Yeah, he don't want to get left. - So he is not left at home.

No, he does not want to be left at home.

Well, in dog years, let's see, what would that make you?

That'd be 28.

Freeloader. Still living at home.

- Still living at home. - Still living at home with mom and dad.

It pays to be such a good, good boy, though, huh?

Oh, my gosh. Who's a good boy?

Who's a good boy?

Ruffing his way into the end of the fall,

Johnathan fetches over 62,000 pounds.

Good boy, Johnathan.

Good boy.

Yesterday, from the moment we all woke up,

the deck felt off.

On the Aleutian Lady...

Jacob, I love the hell out of you,

but you left human fecal matter in a working space,

which is not okay.

I get you had to do it.

You needed to take care of it.

I mean, we're a family on this boat.

We all work our asses off, and we're trying our best

to do what we've got to do.

We're almost done.

Just get on the same page. Put our issues behind us.

I'm hoping we can get our gear dialed in.

And if it happens, we're going to actually make some good money.

Let's just bring it in and get it done as a team

and just kick some ass, you guys. Roger that.

All right? Roger.

Let's rock and roll.

Now, let's just get this done.

I need to fill this boat up as quick as we can.

I can't afford to be messing around anymore.

Well, we got the last one coming up.

Here we go.

Got 'em. Good job, Lauritz.

The new look man.

He pulled it in too fast.

Who's a big boy?

I'm a big boy now.

♪ Oh, you can call...

Whoo!

Just finally get down to the wire,

and then get 'em in the last lap, you know, it seems like.

Got our number.

That's the way to end the season for sure.

Bam!

Oh, Russell, that's not a big enough one.

Yeah, Russell.

You guys ready for this?

So you put down 62,486 pounds.

Yeah! - Boom, baby!

...we made about an extra hundred grand for the boat.

So you all split, that's 30% goes to the crew.

So you all made a little over...

- Yeah, baby! Whoo! - Whoo! Yup!

Merry Christmas. Go have Christmas with your friends.

Let's go to [bleep] Homer.

Whoo! We made it, brother!

It turned out really well.

So, yeah, I wouldn't ever go anywhere without my brother Neal.

Next step is go home and have Christmas.

Come back up and, uh, go fishing.

All right, first pot.

You know, this is gonna make or break us right now

because we guaranteed to catch double our quota.

Way too much rides on this.

Uh, I, kind of, don't even want to watch.

Big money, big money, big money.

Come on, daddy. Send me that crab.

Whoo!

Boom! Whoo-hoo!

Yeah, baby!

Come on! Let's go!

Yes!

Good job!

This is how you fill a tank.

This is how you finish the season, right here.

Come on. Keep it coming, keep it coming.

The guys are kicking ass out there.

They're working their butts off.

Crabby contact.

Oh, yeah! There it is.

Let's go! We needed this.

Thank you, Lord.

Hell, yeah! Whoo!

Landon's got us on bairdi right now.

Numbers are good.

He's doing a good job for sure.

Landon. Hey, boss.

Yeah, we're in the prep room here, but halfway out of it.

They're gonna send me back here soon, so...

How's it going for you guys? What's happening? Everything all right?

Everything's okay.

You can...

You can go through your treatment with some peace of mind.

I think we're gonna be good to go home.

Yeah, I really appreciate you cleaning this up, dude.

I'll get ahold of you when it's over, man.

Take care of the boys. Be careful.

Good luck to you, man. - All right.

I can't believe that I'm out here

by myself right now in the wheelhouse

in this boat. This is just [bleep] crazy.

Last one of the season, boys. Good job.

Yeah! Yeah, baby!

Yes, sir.

I'm finally where I want to be.